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Agent Coordination Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises and Workflow Management

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Cooperative Information Agents V (CIA 2001)

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Abstract

Today’s B2B application scenarios call for the integration of heterogenous resources, services, and processes, as in the case of Virtual Enterprises (VE) and inter-organisational Workflow Management Systems (WfMS). Agent-based approaches have already proven to be suitable to deal with the complexity of such application environments. In this paper we first recognise VE and workflow management as agent coordination problems, then discuss how objective coordination -that is, coordination outside the agents -can help to model VE and WfMS. Finally, we show how an agent coordination infrastructure like TuCSoN can impact on the engineering of highly dynamic VE and WfMS, by discussing a simple case study.

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  1. DEIS, Università di Bologna, Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Alessandro Ricci

  2. DEIS, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Enrico Denti

  3. DEIS, Università di Bologna, Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Andrea Omicini

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Ricci, A., Denti, E., Omicini, A. (2001). Agent Coordination Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises and Workflow Management. In: Klusch, M., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents V. CIA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44799-7_26

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